From acclaimed novelist and cultural historian Ruth Brandon comes a captivating dual biography of the legendary founders of the cosmetics industry, Helena Rubinstein and Eugène Schueller, creator of L’Oréal. Brandon’s gripping and sometimes disturbing story of gender, power, and politics stretches back from the darkest days of World War II, to the emergence of the modern fashion and makeup industries, with magazines such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan and game-changing product lines such as Avon and Mary Kay. Ugly Beauty resonates as well with its implications for modern culture, as we enter an era when haute couture and cosmetology exert an ever more powerful influence upon society at large.

Ugly Beauty: Helena Rubinstein, L'Oréal, and the Blemished History of Looking Good

BRANDON, RUTH

Humor & Entertainment

Harper

Tickling the dragon

J. Cape

The Dollar Princesses: The American invasion of the European aristocracy, 1870-1914

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London

Traces the development of spiritualism and examines the claims of mediums to be able to contact the spirits of the dead

Spiritualists: Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

When parapsychology expert Dr. Jasper Hodgkin disappears during his crucial work on the link between telepathic communication and behavior modification, reporter Andrew Taggart searches for the missing researcher

Out of Body, Out of Mind

Literature & Fiction

St Martins Pr

In the years following World War I the way we perceive the world was turned upside down by a group of writers, painters and film-makers: the surrealists. Their aim was to revolutionize the arts and through them everything else. This text follows the growth of the surrealist movement. It focuses on the lives of the movements central characters, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, and the outrageous Salvador Dali as their dilemmas, struggles and achievements came to mirror the way the world changed between the wars.

Surreal Lives: The Surrealists, 1917-1945

Macmillan

In a series of explorations both historical and actual, Automobile follows the cars momentous journey as it shapes the twentieth century, and sets the terms for the twenty-first. Starting from the Paris of the first road races, Ruth Brandon travels to Frds Detroit, to the Berlin of Hitlers Volkswagen dream, the Belfast field where John DeLoreans fantasy briefly came to life, ending up in automobile apotheosis: the Los Angeles freeways. Along the way, she pauses to consider the cars effect on urban planning and the environment, politics, gender wars, advertising, design, music, fashion and art.

Auto Mobile: How the Car Changed Life

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

This is a group biography of the late-Victorian intellectuals and social reformers known collectively as the "New Thinkers". This extraordinary group of men and women included Eleanor Marx, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells.

The New Women and the Old Men : Love, Sex and the Woman Question

History

Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited

a psychological study of women's sexuality

New Women and the Old Men: Love, Sex, and the Woman Question

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Norton

Sexual politics is far from being a recent subject of debate. In the 1880s it occupied a position of central importance in certain radical circles in London, where intellectuals such as Beatrice and Sidney Webb, H.G.Wells, George Bernard Shaw and others debated how sexual relationships should be conducted, and how the ideal socialist household should be organized. Using as the basis of her research the letters, pamphlets and diaries of members of this circle, Ruth Brandon examines the questions and conflicts which they had to face. Particularly, she focuses on the artistic women at the centre of the circle, describing how each was forced to compromise her ideals in order to fit a pattern determined by the men in her life.

New Women and the Old Men: Love, Sex and the Woman Question

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

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